MCqMC 2022 in Linz, 17-22 July

At the end of MCqMC 2020, held on-line with the amazing support of ICMS in Edinburgh, the next location was announced as being Linz, Austria, hosted by the Johannes Kepler Universität I visited a few years ago (with a memorable run up a nearby hill!). Hopefully this will take place for real as well as on-line, but my prior is rather non-informed at the moment…

BAYSM ’14 im Wien, Sep. 18-19

It all started in Jim Berger’s basement, drinking with the uttermost reverence an otherworldly Turley Zinfandel during the great party Ann and Jim Berger hosted for the O’Bayes’13 workshop in Duke. I then mentioned to Angela Bitto and Alexandra Posekany, from WU Wien, that I was going to be in Austria next September for a seminar in Linz, at the Johannes Kepler Universität, and, as it happened to take place the day before BAYSM ’14, the second conference of the young Bayesian statisticians, in connection with the j-ISBA section, they most kindly invited me to the meeting! As a senior Bayesian, most obviously! This is quite exciting, all the more because I never visited Vienna before. (Contrary to other parts of Austria, like the Großglockner, where I briefly met Peter Habeler. Trivia: the cover picture of the ‘Og is actually taken from the Großglockner.)